Re: Contaminated uranium in the news again

["Phil Hypes" <laradcon@HOTMAIL.COM>]

"That exposure could significantly increase their odds of developing cancer 

and other diseases."



This statement strikes me as a little misleading, at least concerning 

external exposure.  Anyone who worked around this stuff wearing dosimetry 

would have had their total dose recorded, not just their dose from Uranium.  

Any if people worked around it without dosimetry, it was probably because 

someone had checked the exposure rates from the material and found them to 

be below applicable limits.  So nothing has really be "significantly 

increased" from an external exposure standpoint.



Risks from internal uptake, of course, would be another matter.



Phil Hypes

Los Alamos Radiation Consultants

laradcon@hotmail.com

505.920.9712



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